Our Founders were vehemently opposed to property taxes. The memories of the royal property assessors was still too fresh. It was a philosophical objection: If the government can evict you from your property for failure to pay taxes on it, then you do not in fact own that property. You are merely renting it from the government. Remember that the Declaration of Independence says that all humans have the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," which was a late edit; the original drafts said "life, liberty, and property."
An Iranian professor at my university made this same point to me. She said that Americans have no true freedom, because they have no security in their own homes (a concept with which the Founders also would have agreed). She pointed out that if you fail to pay your taxes one year, you lose your home, something she said is inconceivable in Iran. Even worse, she said, when you die, the government liquidates your property to pay for your Medicare benefit. In Iran, homes are passed on from one generation to the next. The government can't confiscate it at death.
Where there is no right of property, there is no liberty.